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Title: Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds -- North America
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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er, finely pointed and curved. The edgesof the mandibles are finely serrated. The nests are beautiful structures suspended from the end of a bough oreven from the underside of a leaf. The entrance is near the top and usuallyon the side. Over the entrance a projecting portico is often constructed. Theoutside of the nest is usually covered with coarse materials, apparently to givethe effect of a pile of rubbish. Two eggs are usually laid in these cozy homes,but in rare instances three have been found. The Philippine Sun-bird of ourillustration is a native of the Philippines and is found on nearly all the islandsfrom Luzon to Mindanao. The throat of the male has a beautiful iridescentshaded with green, while that of the female, shown on the nest, is yellow. Fly, white butterflies, out to sea.Frail pale wings for the winds to try;Small white wings that we scarce can seeHere and there may a chance-caught eye Fly.Note, in a score of you, twain or threeBrighter or darker of tinge or dye; 822
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.M.( PHILIPPINE YELLOW-BREASTED SUN-BIRD. (Cinnyris jugularis). Life-size. Some My li^lit .i> a lauj,h (»f ^kt, ^ Sonic Hy soft as a lon^, low sigh: All to the li.ivfii where each would he— Ily. —SwiNBiRNE. J Our Skylark By Edward B. Clark The ICngli.sh Skylark is tryiii)^ to hcconie an American citizen. Possibly itis too early yet to call it our skylark, but it is said that the bird has shownthat it can stand the American climate and that the few larks now with us arelikely to become the forefathers and foremothers of a long and tuneful line ofsongsters. It is a sweet bird, this skylark, l^nglishmen who have come to our shoresto stay always have felt it a personal grievance that America had no skylark.After the manner of John IjuH, the ICnglishman has seemed to feel that insome way the American people were to blame for the absence of the lark fromthe Yankee avifauna. Small blame to John for missing him. The bird is nobeauty. We have a thousand belter-dressed birds and a thous

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